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illustrated by such cases as those of Ursula Aguir (1592), and Sister 

 Emmerich (1824). Here, again, we have to face simply the oft- 

 repeated problem of the potent influence of mind over a special 

 region or part of the body, resulting from the extreme concentration 

 of the attention upon special features or objects of adoration or 

 worship. Emotional excitement produces cases allied to those of 

 the " stigmatics " of religion, under circumstances which suggest a 

 common causation for both. In -the case of a sailor related by 

 Paulini, large drops of perspiration of a bright red colour appeared 

 on the face, neck, and breast, after a severe fright. The man was 

 speechless from mental excitement, but as the bleeding points dis- 

 appeared the man recovered his speech. This case presents us with 

 the phenomena of Louise Lateau, the stigmatic, separated from the 

 halo of inspiration by which she was surrounded, but induced by a 

 like cause the abnormal, concentrated, and unconscious action of 

 the imagination upon the circulation. No less interesting is the 

 occurrence of a similar phenomenon in lower life, in the august 

 person of a hippopotamus, which in a fit of rage was noted by the 

 late Mr. Frank Buckland to perspire profusely a fluid containing 

 blood. This latter fact serves to demonstrate not merely the com- 

 munity of these phenomena in man and animals, but also divests the 

 occurrence of that miraculous or occult nature which human credulity 

 or superstition, under certain circumstances, would assuredly attribute 

 to it. 



